Texte, image, exposition: Annette Messager, transformer les discours et les sociétés
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Cet article examine la relation complexe entre le texte, les images et l’installation artistique dans l’ouvrage Les Pensionnaires (2007) d’Annette Messager, œuvre initialement exposée entre 1971 et 1972. Elle reflète un questionnement quant aux hiérarchies traditionnelles dans le monde de l’art et dans la société française, en particulier dans le contexte de la France des années 1960-1970. L’utilisation par Messager de formes hybrides – corps et objets augmentés, textes, dessins et photographies – remet en question les distinctions conventionnelles entre l’art et la vie, en proposant des modes d’être alternatifs. L’article explore la manière dont l’artiste propose une remédiation de l’installation d’origine à travers le livre, offrant une perspective renouvelée sur les discours sociétaux en temps de crise. L’analyse aborde trois crises principales : la crise des hiérarchies traditionnelles, la crise des sciences mécanistes et la crise de l’humain. Elle souligne la manière dont la transformation de l’installation en livre non seulement préserve mais réinvente également les perspectives socio-politiques inhérentes à l’œuvre originale, offrant un jeu dynamique entre les médiations qui remet en question et redéfinit potentiellement les normes sociétales et artistiques.
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This article examines the complex relationship between text, image and art installation in Annette Messager’s book Les Pensionnaires (2007), originally exhibited between 1971 and 1972. It reflects a questioning of traditional hierarchies in the art world and in French society, particularly in the context of France in the 1960’s and 1970’s. Messager’s use of hybrid forms – augmented bodies and objects, texts, drawings and photographs – challenges conventional distinctions between art and life, proposing alternative ways of being. The article explores how the artist proposes a remediation of the original installation through the book, offering a renewed perspective on societal discourses in times of crisis. The analysis addresses three main crises: the crisis of traditional hierarchies, the crisis of the mechanistic sciences, and the crisis of the human. It highlights how the transformation of the installation into a book not only preserves but also reinvents the socio-political perspectives inherent in the original work, offering a dynamic interplay between mediations that potentially challenges and redefines societal norms. @font-face {font-family:"MS Mincho"; panose-1:2 2 6 9 4 2 5 8 3 4; mso-font-alt:"ＭＳ 明朝"; mso-font-charset:128; mso-generic-font-family:modern; mso-font-pitch:fixed; mso-font-signature:-536870145 1791491579 134217746 0 131231 0;}@font-face {font-family:"Cambria Math"; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:roman; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-536870145 1107305727 0 0 415 0;}@font-face {font-family:Calibri; panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:swiss; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-536859905 -1073732485 9 0 511 0;}@font-face {font-family:"\@MS Mincho"; panose-1:2 2 6 9 4 2 5 8 3 4; mso-font-charset:128; mso-generic-font-family:modern; mso-font-pitch:fixed; mso-font-signature:-536870145 1791491579 134217746 0 131231 0;}@font-face {font-family:Times; panose-1:2 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0; mso-font-alt:"Times New Roman"; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:roman; mso-font-pitch:auto; mso-font-signature:0 0 0 0 0 0;}p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-indent:36.0pt; line-height:200%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; tab-stops:153.4pt; font-size:11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:10.5pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; background:white; mso-ansi-language:EN-US; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;}h1 {mso-style-priority:9; mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-link:"Heading 1 Char"; mso-style-next:Normal; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center; line-height:200%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; mso-outline-level:1; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin; background:white; mso-font-kerning:0pt; mso-ansi-language:EN-US; mso-fareast-language:EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight:normal;}span.Heading1Char {mso-style-name:"Heading 1 Char"; mso-style-priority:9; mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-locked:yes; mso-style-link:"Heading 1"; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin; font-weight:bold; mso-bidi-font-weight:normal;}.MsoChpDefault {mso-style-type:export-only; mso-default-props:yes; font-size:11.0pt; mso-ansi-font-size:11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi; mso-font-kerning:0pt; mso-ansi-language:EN-US; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;}.MsoPapDefault {mso-style-type:export-only; margin-bottom:8.0pt; line-height:107%;}div.WordSection1 {page:WordSection1;}
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